United Telephone Offers New Services

MAITLAND — United Telephone of Florida is offering new services for small business customers with telephone numbers beginning with 660 and 875.

Starting Saturday, about 6,250 customers can subscribe to the features, which had been available to businesses using larger systems.

Call Pickup is for people who want to answer a telephone without picking up the receiver. Call Hold puts a call on hold without a call button.

Ring Again involves a button to punch to redial the most recently called number. Call Forwarding transfers a call from one phone to another. Call Waiting allows someone to accept a second call while still handling the first call.

Speed Call programs frequently dialed telephone numbers using just two digits. A conference calling option allows three or more people to converse at the same time.

The features coincide with a $2.2 million switching center the company is installing.